Official Nimbuzz Blog

You might not own a smartphone but with Nimbuzz it sure feels like your phone is smarter! Thanks to the new Nimbuzz bots, you can get the latest cricket news, see your daily astrology predictions or tweet without ever closing your Nimbuzz app and all that … with minimal data usage! Pretty awesome, right?  :D

How can you add Nimbuzz bots?

That’s easy. Simply look for N-World in your Nimbuzz app and go the “Bots” section. Here you will find:

• Astrology bot – to see how your day will be based on daily astrological predictions
• Cricket bot – to get the latest scores of your favorite Cricket team
• Twitter Bot – to tweet right from within the chat window
• Jimmy Testbot – to have funny conversations and test your mobile internet connection

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Good news for all you BB users out there: there is a new Nimbuzz version available for download and you can get from Nimbuzz.com.

The new Nimbuzz 1.3.7 for Blackberry comes with a very useful feature: message delivery notifications. This will display:

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Last month we organized our fist official Nimbuzz MeetUp in India and it was awesome. The event took place in Patna, India and we had the pleasure to meet face to face over 50 supportive fans and Nimbuzz Ambassadors.

Robert and Sumit were there to present the upcoming Nimbuzz features and get feedback directly from the people that use Nimbuzz all day, every day.

Below you can see the pictures from the Nimbuzz MeetUp.

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The latest Nimbuzz update for Java enabled featurephones comes with a great set of features that will enable you to get more out of your phone. You can get the new version from Nimbuzz.com.

Here is what’s new:

• Message Delivery Notifications will display checkmarks when your message arrives on your friend’s phone.
• Access to free avatars and bots via N-World.
• Clickable links inside the chat screen
• New way to insert emoticons : Open a chat -> Menu -> Insert emoticon -> Enjoy

We hope you will enjoy the new features and if you have any questions or suggestions  please let us know.

Our latest update for Android devices comes with two awesome features:

• Push notifications (for Android O.S. 2.2 or higher)
• Message delivery notifications

You can get the new version via the Android Market or Nimbuzz.com.

Now let’s talk a bit more about the new features.

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This Ramadan and Eid be closer to your family and friends and call them via NimbuzzOut.

Starting 1^st of August 2011 we are slashing down the rates up to an amazing 25% so you can call more for less.

Don’t miss the chance to call to Egypt for only $0.105/min, Iran for only  $0.113/min, Kuwait for $0.095/min or Turkey for only $0.019/min. You can see the complete list of discounted rates here.

Besides these great discounts we have a BONUS offer for you. Every time you buy $40 NimbuzzOut credit we will give you an extra $4 for free.  All you need to do is use the Promo Code: Ramadan , each time you make a purchase of $40.

Buy Credits now and take advantage of our NimbuzzOut super deal during Ramadan and Eid. Be closer to your friends and family.

• Do you live in the San Francisco area or plan to be there on 5th of August?
• Do you want to go to an awesome conference that brings together youth, entrepreneurship, startups, the web and technology?
• Do you want a free ticket?

Yes, Yes and Yes?

Awesome , because we have 10 free tickets for the 2011 Teens In Tech conference . We will give the tickets away to the first ten of you who will leave a comment below saying why do you want to attend the event. (make sure you you fill in your email address so we can contact you).

You can find more information about the Teens In Tech conference of their official web page.

Good luck everybody.

Great news everybody! We just launched our first online social game which is available exclusively via N-World.

You can start playing Car Wars right now and invite all your Nimbuzz friends to join .

How can I start playing?

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As promised last week, we’re back with a Nimbuzz Theme for Nokia Symbian phones that run on s60v3.  You can get it here.

As you might already know there are two screen formats available for s60v3, the tall format – 240X320 – like on Nokia e51 and the wide format – 320X240 – like one Nokia E71-72-73. This means you need to install the right theme format on your phone to look good .

The themes are bundled together in a .zip file, so you need to extract them before you install them.

To install it on your phone you can either transfer it via Bluetooth or via the Nokia PC Suite. Once installed you can activate it from Themes menu. You can find the Themes menu by going to Menu>Control Panel>Themes.

We hope you will like this theme. If you have any idea for the next Freebie Friday let us know in the comments .

It has been brought to our attention that some members of the Anonymous hacker group “leaked confidential information” about the fact that Nimbuzz has restricted VoIP access in some countries.

This was public information and we have been communicating this via our Twitter account, the Nimbuzz support email and even by sending a direct chat message to all affected users, so we are surprised they did not know that.  Next time simply check our Twitter feed guys .

Here are the facts.

In countries like Egypt and Syria, local regulators blocked access to the Nimbuzz application because it provides free mobile calls (VoIP).

Because we want to enable our customers in these countries to still communicate via Nimbuzz, we tried offering our users a chat only Nimbuzz app, thus disabling VoIP access. We tried to negotiate with the operators and convince them to restore access to Nimbuzz, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case and we are still blocked, like other VoIP providers.

To prevent a similar action happening in other countries, we are trying to negotiate with operators beforehand and see if by restricting VoIP access on their network, we can still offer our users a chat-only app, instead of umm… nothing! The point here is not to “collude” with anyone, but to provide the services we are permitted to provide within applicable laws and regulations.

As you can see the accusations that we censor communication are not only false, but is the opposite of what we are actually doing.  Our core business is mobile communication (VoiP and Chat). Why would we ever do anything to voluntarily block communications for our customers?

Our take: This time, Anonymous group has its facts completely wrong … for two reasons:

1. Publishing already public information. Ask our users.
2. Accusing Nimbuzz of censorship. Not true since we do our best to bring free mobile communication to all our users.

In regards to the security breach they have used, we have identified the issue and it’s fixed. No user data was compromised.